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Our new research project is looking at young people’s access to safeguarding services.
The NSPCC Child Protection Research Department carries out national research into child protection and child welfare, including the causes, effects and prevention of abuse.
The Child Protection Research Department includes research staff who work at NSPCC Weston House in London; research fellows currently based at the University of Bristol, School for Policy Studies; The University of Huddersfield, Centre for Applied Childhood Studies and The University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity. We also have an ESRC funded PhD studentship based at Royal Holloway, University of London, and commission researchers in other research centres. The Evaluation Department at Weston House have a Senior Research Fellow who is funded by the NSPCC and employed by the University of East Anglia, School for Social Work and Psychosocial Studies.
The NSPCC Child Protection Research Department is part of the NSPCC Public Policy Function. Our objectives are:
The Child Protection Research Department places a high priority on understanding the perspectives of children with regards to their own experiences and the services they receive; fieldwork-based projects include interviews with children wherever possible.
We are continually seeking to develop new ways in which research findings can be reported back to both the children and adults who take part in the research and the general public whom, ultimately, are the primary guardians of children's safety.
NSPCC research findings are disseminated to practitioners, managers, and policy makers through in-service training courses to promote evidence-based practice, publication, conferences and seminars and to the public through NSPCC’s public education activities.
The Child Protection Research Department offers internal support to NSPCC staff and external support to other practitioners undertaking part time research. This can be through individual advice and consultancy, joint supervision of postgraduate degree studies, mentoring for the research modules of the Advanced Award in Social Work, and by providing practical research placements. There is an active programme of training with post-graduate research students, including ESRC collaborative (CASE) studentships. Advice and support is offered to NSPCC social work practitioners undertaking part-time research.
The work of the research staff and research fellows also regularly contributes to discussions with government policy makers and international researchers and practitioners visiting the UK, and to national and international conferences. The researchers work collaboratively with researchers from a range of Universities and voluntary organisations.
Much of the work undertaken by the Department and its university-based Research Fellows is supplemented by external funding. Research grants have been from the Economic and Social Research Council, the Department of Health, the European Union Daphne Programme, the Nuffield Foundation, the Community Fund now the Big Lottery Fund and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
If you require further information about the work of the NSPCC Research Department, please contact us via our online Enquiry service
www.nspcc.org.uk/research
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